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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community. It is heartening to see that content is at the center of most discussions about the state of B2B marketing today. Why not create a downloadable library on your website?

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

Sure, they are human beings like the rest of us but they have very different emotional triggers and needs when it comes to making work-related decisions. I should know — I am an engineer too. So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Engineers are creatures of habit.

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

Rule #2: Content comes before redesigning your website Avoid the site redesign cycle of frustration by first developing a clear game plan for creating or repurposing existing content for the new site. It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more.

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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

That’s like finding a better way to punch people in the face&# is one of the more memorable examples of his outlook. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNsettling Stratten has a knack for gaps. A tall order, to be certain.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Social media doesn’t create negativity, it uncovers it. (I